Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Venus, 1975

Christo and Jeanne-Claude   Master Artists

Color lithograph on paper, a rare and historically important work by Christo (1935–2020) and documents one of the artist's earliest and most influential wrapping projects.

This example is hand-signed “Christo" in pencil in the lower left and numbered in pencil.

Wrapped Venus refers to Christo's 1963 project for the Villa Borghese in Rome, where he wrapped a classical sculpture, anticipating the monumental public interventions that later made him world-famous.

The work combines photographic documentation with drawn elements, capturing the tension between classical form and contemporary conceptual intervention. The wrapped sculpture appears isolated and monumental, emphasizing Christo's fascination with concealment, transformation, and temporary alteration of familiar objects and spaces.

The work is catalogued in the standard reference Schellmann / Benecke, no. 74, confirming its importance within Christo's graphic oeuvre.

Christo, together with his wife Jeanne-Claude, became internationally renowned for large-scale environmental and architectural projects such as Wrapped Reichstag, Surrounded Islands, and The Gates. Early works like Wrapped Venus are highly sought after as they reveal the conceptual origins of these later iconic realizations.

Reference: Schellmann / Benecke 74

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